Pete Hindle

Sparkler Fun from petehindle on Vimeo.
I’m trying out posting videos from vimeo onto a wordpress blog. It’s quite a hassle, and I’m not sure if this will be the solution. There’s also the problem that I can’t use the nifty features of wordpress if I want to embed a vimeo video… sigh.

This is the first attempt by Brian, Topsy and myself at a podcast – it’s a roughly edited ten-minutes or so of us talking about some of the things that are coming up over the week, some of the things we are doing, and some of the art in the local area.
It’s not going to [...]

Am back in Newcastle now. Although my plans were to get a shave and go on a bike ride, today it’s snowing. Above, the first things I saw on my return to this city; after the eye-popping walk through the city centre on a Friday night.

Macbook Air; not small enough, not enough ports, too much bling. I wanted a macbook swiss army knife, but we got a macbook porsche instead.
Well, that’s what I just posted on Twitter. Okay, it’s pretty, but I need a digital leatherman more than some pretty laptop. I want something I can use for a [...]

… when my university housing caught fire? At the fusebox? In the fireman’s strike?
… when you hired that technician to run the video editing suite, who’d never used FCP or macs?
… when all the lecturers took three days a week off, for what seemed like a month, right before the degree show?
… when everybody passed [...]

I’m going to take a break from my review-writing and talk about some history.  About three years ago (2005), around this time of year (January), I had an interview for the UK’s highest educational establishment, the Royal College of Arts.
Back then, I was really interested in making interactive art pieces. In some ways, I still [...]

It’s late, I’m bored and thinking of Marmite, so it’s time for another review of Bad Tech I Have Brought. This week: the Creative Zen Micro.
I didn’t actually buy the Creative Zen Player for myself. I brought it for my Grandfather, at his express order. He used to get the John Lewis catalogue of tech [...]

I can’t think of anything more painful (in terms of UI) than using Excel on a Mac. It stinks. It’s even making me think about using one of the Open Office variants that are around, and I know they suck.

I thought I’d do some reviews of some of the really really bad tech I own. I’ve got some critical facilities, and I like tinkering with technology. So this seems like a good way to fill in some otherwise empty time.
You might be asking, ‘What is an M3 DS Simply?, which would be appropriate if [...]

I must admit to being slack about this; I was not actually aware that there was a Northern Art Prize, nor that it was in Leeds, or that the winner would be announced this month. So finding out about it was quite a shock – but not as much of a shock as seeing the [...]